How Rewind uses AI
Last updated July 3, 2026.
Rewind uses AI to help turn a church's own sermons into study material — overviews, devotionals, group guides, scripture references, homiletic breakdowns, and answers to questions — and to assist preachers as they draft. This page explains what that AI does and the commitments we hold ourselves to. It describes how the product is built to behave; it is not legal advice.
Everything AI-assisted is labeled
Every piece of AI-generated content in Rewind carries a “Rewind AI” mark and a short disclosure, once per item, in plain language. We do not pass AI-generated material off as if a person wrote it, and we do not present a paraphrase as a verbatim quote — those are labeled distinctly. Every AI artifact also carries a “Report a problem” link so a reader can flag anything that seems off.
Faithful to the source
Generated content is grounded in the church's own sermons and the Scripture those sermons teach — not an open-ended model opinion. Concretely:
- We paraphrase and cite the church's own sermons rather than inventing new claims, and we say so plainly when there is nothing in the source to ground a point.
- We never fabricate a quotation, a personal story, a name, a statistic, or an attribution. Real quotes and attributed illustrations enter only through a path that carries them verbatim from the source; the generator is not permitted to author them.
- We display church-authored titles and text verbatim, and we never rewrite them “for newcomers.”
Doctrinal accuracy
Rewind is a study aid, not a doctrinal authority. Generated material is built to stay within historic, mainstream Christian teaching and within the connecting church's own stated convictions. In practice that means it:
- introduces no doctrine that the sermon and the passage did not raise;
- does not contradict a position the church has settled, and takes no side on the matters that church explicitly leaves open;
- defers to the church's leadership on doctrine — a church supplies its own settled and open positions, and generated material works within them;
- reflects a posture of unity on essentials, liberty on non-essentials, and love in all things.
These are commitments about how the product is built to behave, not a guarantee of theological perfection. AI can be wrong. Treat Rewind's output as a starting point for study under your church's teaching, not a substitute for it, and tell us when something misses.
A human is always in the loop
The drafting tools in Studio produce draft material a preacher owns, edits, and may discard — never a finished sermon and never the church's official voice. The preacher authors the central idea; the AI scaffolds and develops what the preacher wrote. Reader-facing content (overviews, devotionals, group guides) is generated from already-published sermons and is labeled as AI-assisted so a reader always knows what they are looking at.
The models we use
Rewind uses Anthropic's Claude models to generate text and OpenAI's embedding models to power search over a church's sermons. We do not use a church's content to train third-party foundation models; providers process content only to return a result to us. See our Privacy Policy and Data Processing Addendum for how data is handled and who our subprocessors are.
Tell us when something is wrong
If any generated content misrepresents a sermon, misstates doctrine, or fabricates a detail, use the “Report a problem” link on that content, or contact us. Reports go to church and Rewind reviewers, and they help us correct the material and improve the guardrails.